It looks like she won’t suffer much without her job because reports have come out that Snipes will receive over $130,000 in pensions. From Fox News:

Snipes, 75, already receives a pension of more than $58,000 from her time as an educator and is poised to collect another $71,000 for 15 years as an elected official, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

“Although I have enjoyed this work tremendously over these many election cycles, both large and small, I am ready to pass the torch,” Snipes wrote in her resignation letter to Republican Gov. Rick Scott. “Therefore, I request that you accept my letter of resignation effective January 4, 2019.”

Her resignation came amid heavy criticism for her office’s handling of the recount of a Senate race between incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and Scott, who was declared the winner. (Scott was not allowed to seek re-election as governor because of the state’s term-limit laws.)

Broward County failed to turn in the recount results by the state’s deadline, lost thousands of ballots and opened 205 provisional early-voting ballots before their validity was determined.

“It really raises the question, on top of everything else, why she’s being excessively compensated for doing a poor job. That’s the added insult to injury,” said Dominic Calabro, president and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group based in Tallahassee.

Snipes earned $179,000 a year as supervisor of elections in Broward County.

Calabro also mentioned that “Snipes will also benefit from annual cost-of-living increases, averaging between 2 percent and 3 percent, that will add thousands of dollars to her pensions each year.”

Calabro “has pushed for additional pension reforms.” Snipes’ pension is legal, but Calabro said that many “Floridians are resentful for it.”

Comments

How does being a election supervisor for a county even EARN $179k a year?!?! Let alone get $130k in pension retirement. Let alone the fact she completely sucked at a job your average McDonalds store manager could have easily done.

Public pensions are simply out of control and will bankrupt America. I worked for a Fortune 50 company for 24 years, many at a Director level making ~$200K per year. My estimated pension once I turn 65, ~$54K per year, a FAR CRY from $130K.

I am a high school teacher in Louisiana. If I stick with it for a total of 30 years, then I will get about 80% of the average of my 3 highest earning years. Right now that is about $36k annually. Our retirement fund is in pretty good shape because almost no teachers make it that long and our pay isn’t astronomical.

Our biggest problem is keeping other public employees out of our fund. The police get their overtime added in so they end up retiring on something like 130% of their annual average.

I don’t think her failures were due to incompetence, I think she knew full well what she was doing, her own little criminal enterprise. I hope it gets fully investigated and that charges are brought against her for her malfeasance.

Her pension as a retired educator is irrelevant to her pension as an elected official. She served her time in the school system. That said, she really needs to be prosecuted and have her second pension stripped. THEN they need to check and see if a criminal conviction in any way affects the educator’s pension.

“And of course, in some part of our minds we must look to the future. To legislation that will normalize and regularize our voting procedures, make clear and just its rules and regulations, see to it that a Florida will never happen again.” – Peggy Noon, The Greenwood Position, Nov 24th 2000

Well, hell—she may have been nakedly partisan or maximally incompetent, but she hasn’t been convicted of anything, and I’m not sure if she is that would matter, either. Pensions are awarded for length of service, not its quality. She was a schoolteacher, and then she managed to land this civil service post, where she somehow lasted for 15 years. Why shouldn’t she get her two pensions when all the others do?

We’re not only getting awfully vengeful here, people are suggesting that we abrogate the rule of contract law for political reasons. I don’t like it when the left does it, and I don’t like it when the right does it.

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